Good Book

The Snowball

A personally revealing and complete biography of the man known everywhere as "The Oracle of Omaha"....

2,220 well-invested minutes!

By
BogKid
on
01-07-09

The Effective Executive

The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

By:
Peter F. Drucker

Narrated by:
Jim Collins,
Tim Andres Pabon

Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins

Unabridged

Overall

371

Performance

318

Story

317

The measure of the executive, Peter F. Drucker reminds us, is the ability to "get the right things done". This usually involves doing what other people have overlooked....

Hard to follow

By
Amazon Customer
on
11-14-17

Execution

The Discipline of Getting Things Done

By:
Larry Bossidy,
Ram Charan

Narrated by:
John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins

Unabridged

Overall

1,103

Performance

444

Story

444

The audio that shows how to get the job done and deliver results...whether you're running an entire company or in your first management job...

the triumph of bad design over sound contact

By
David
on
08-02-05

Where Are the Customers' Yachts?: or A Good Hard Look at Wall Street

By:
Fred Schwed Jr.,
Peter Arno

Narrated by:
Mark Moseley

Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins

Unabridged

Overall

299

Performance

245

Story

245

Humorous and entertaining, this book exposes the folly and hypocrisy of Wall Street....

Great insight

By
NEEL KANASE
on
07-13-15

The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed.

By:
Benjamin Graham

Narrated by:
Luke Daniels

Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins

Unabridged

Overall

1,690

Performance

1,472

Story

1,462

Vital and indispensable, this HarperBusiness Essentials edition of The Intelligent Investor is the most important book you will ever listen on how to reach your financial goals....

Changed me

By
Hobo Joe
on
03-23-16

Shoe Dog

A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

By:
Phil Knight

Narrated by:
Norbert Leo Butz,
Phil Knight - introduction

Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins

Unabridged

Overall

17,842

Performance

16,077

Story

16,066

Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands....

A must listen to book- It's the perfect biz memoir

By
Brock
on
06-02-16

Warren Buffett's Ground Rules

Words of Wisdom from the Partnership Letters of the World's Greatest Investor

By:
Jeremy C. Miller

Narrated by:
Tom Perkins

Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins

Unabridged

Overall

145

Performance

121

Story

121

Using the letters Warren Buffett wrote to his partners between 1956 and 1970, a veteran financial advisor presents the renowned guru's "ground rules" for investing....

Absolutely fantastic

By
Matthew
on
08-18-16

Alibaba

The House That Jack Ma Built

By:
Duncan Clark

Narrated by:
Jim Meskimen

Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins

Unabridged

Overall

1,492

Performance

1,305

Story

1,296

An engrossing insider's account of how a teacher built one of the world's most valuable companies - rivaling Walmart and Amazon - and forever reshaped the global economy....

Strange: Best part of story happens "off-screen"

By
Tristan
on
09-02-16

The Everything Store

Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

By:
Brad Stone

Narrated by:
Pete Larkin

Length: 13 hrs

Unabridged

Overall

7,892

Performance

6,881

Story

6,896

Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller....

Loved the honesty!

By
Paul
on
01-29-14

The Most Important Thing

Uncommon Sense for The Thoughtful Investor

By:
Howard Marks

Narrated by:
John FitzGibbon

Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins

Unabridged

Overall

768

Performance

631

Story

621

Howard Marks, the chairman and cofounder of Oaktree Capital Management, is renowned for his insightful assessments of market opportunity and risk....

Five Star Book, two Star Audiobook

By
Johnny
on
06-08-15

Publisher's Summary

As CEO of General Electric for the past 20 years, Jack Welch has built its market cap by more than $450 billion and established himself as the most admired business leader in the world. His championing of initiatives like Six Sigma quality, globalization, and e-business have helped define the modern corporation. At the same time, he is a gutsy boss who has forged a unique philosophy and an operating system that relies on a "boundary-less" sharing of ideas, an intense focus on people, and an informal, give-and-take style that makes bureaucracy the enemy.

In anecdotal detail and with self-effacing humor, Jack Welch gives us the people who shaped his life (most notably his Irish mother) and the big hits and the big misses that characterized his career. Starting at GE in 1960 as an engineer earning $10,500, Jack learned the need for "getting out of the pile" when his first raise was the same as everyone else's. He stayed out of the corporate bureaucracy while running a $2 billion collection of GE businesses - in a sweater and blue jeans - out of a Hilton in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

After avoiding GE's Fairfield, Connecticut headquarters for years, Jack was eventually summoned by then-Chairman Reg Jones, who was planning his succession. There ensued one of the most painful parts of his career - Jack's dark-horse struggle, filled with political tension, to make it to the CEO's chair. A hug from Reg confirmed Jack was the new boss - and started the GE transformation. The riveting story of his last year - the elaborate process of selecting a successor and the attempt to buy Honeywell - is also told in compelling detail.

This is classic Jack Welch: down to earth, powerful, and filled with common sense.

Narrated with passion

I really enjoyed this book. JW narrates with passion so for those of us who have a tendency to drift off when listening to audio books it really does keep you engaged and focused. A very interesting biography of not only JW but also GE.